Bob Dylan and Jack White's Hank Williams tribute
Jack White The songs – inspired by lyrics and ideas included in several notebooks owned by Hank, who died in 1953 aged just 29 – will be released on an album called The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams.
The White Stripes frontman Jack only recently revealed that he believed he had to chose You Know That I Know for inclusion on the album as the track “just kept speaking” to the guitarist when reading the lyrics.
The Seven Nation Army hitmaker explained that “I did a project with Bob Dylan (and) he put together 20 or 25 people to finish writing Hank Williams songs that only had lyrics and didn’t have music”.
Jack continued that he “looked through all the piles of lyrics, and one of ’em just kept speaking to me”, with the rock star believing that “sometimes you think it’s gonna be really hard to find my spot, and then it picks it for you – you don’t even have to choose it (as) it just picks it for you”.
The album originally began life as a solo project for Bob – who recorded The Love That Faded – but ultimately blossomed to comprise numerous stars, including Merle Haggard, Alan Jackson and Sheryl Crow.
The release, which will come out on October 4 through Egyptian Records, will also feature extensive sleeve notes that explain the discovery of the notebooks and the reasons behind the decision to create the album.
